Analysis of the Australian Web Threat Landscape

In May 2013, Trend Micro and Deakin University conducted a study into the state of web based threats in Australia. They monitored web activity using Trend Micro’s Smart Protection Network (SPN) technology over a 2 week period.

The key findings were:

One in eight Australian IPs are exposed to web threats every day

Researchers’ analysed malicious activity from over 200,000,000 web requests per day from Australia, with around 400,000 of these issued to malicious web pages

One in every 2,500 web hits originating from Australia is malicious in nature, resulting in Australian users being victim to (3%) of the world web threat attacks

57% of malicious traffic was triggered by business product users whilst consumer product users accounted for over a third 41%